European champions, now world champions — Spain complete the double sixteen years after South Africa 2010, and they did it without trailing for a single minute of the knockout rounds. The debate starts now: is this the best international side since… that Spain?

Enzo Fernández's 90+3 second yellow — a lunge on Cubarsí with extra time seconds away — left Argentina a man down for all thirty added minutes. He has since apologized to the fans. Was the second booking fair, and does the final change eleven-v-eleven?

Argentina managed 2 shots and 0.2 xG across 120 minutes of a World Cup final; Spain piled up 20 shots and 1.94 xG. Only Dibu Martínez — a record eleven saves in a final — kept the champions in it that long.

On for Oyarzabal on 62, match-winner on 106, turning in Porro's lifted ball at the back post. Spain's bench has decided match after match this tournament — De la Fuente's substitutions may be the quiet story of the title.

The last dance ends in silver: Messi lifts a runners-up medal in what he's called his final World Cup, and Mbappé leaves with the all-time World Cup scoring record. Across the pitch, an 18-year-old Lamine Yamal lifts the trophy — the torch didn't pass so much as sprint away.